[DRBD-user] Online Verify and Kernel Panic

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:16:19PM +0200, Fabrice Charlier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are running a web cluster based on dual primary drbd
> configuration and ocfs2. During each week-end we run a online verify
> on the drbd volume by executing "/sbin/drbdadm verify all" on one
> node. Last w-e, one node (not the one executing the verify command)
> completely crash and we found it this morning with a nice kernel
> panic message on the console.

Would have been useful to post that nice kernel panic message here.

> Anybody else already observed this behavior?
> 
> OS:  Linux server1.ucl.ac.be 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu May 13
> 13:08:30 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> DRBD: # modinfo drbd
> filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/weak-updates/drbd83/drbd.ko
> alias:          block-major-147-*
> license:        GPL
> version:        8.3.2

Please use 8.3.8.1,
iirc, we fixed some bugs in some code paths with online verify since 8.3.2.

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